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It seemed a kind of spontaneous effort on the lad's part, as if it was necessary to burn up the energy in surplus of the demand of his growing bone and muscle. Ollie had picked up and brightened under the influence of ham and milk also, although it was all a foolish yielding to appetite, as Isom very well knew.
The strange youth seated himself on the rock, facing the valley below, saying in a low tone, "Ollie was a settin' like this, all still; just a smokin' and a watchin' the moonlight things that was dancin' over the tops of the trees down there."
Conscience whipped her through, but it could not make her unafraid. Hammer turned to the prosecutor with questioning eyes. Lucas announced that he did not desire to cross-examine the witness, and the judge dismissed her. Ollie went back to her mother.
There was Ollie, who marked a period in his life when he began to understand these things, dimly. Ollie was not like this one in any particular that he could discover as common between them. She was far back in the past today, like a simple lesson, hard in its hour, but conquered and put by. Here was one as far above Ollie as a star.
I but it was very fortunate that Young Matt was there, wasn't it?" The last sentence slipped out before she knew. Ollie retorted angrily, "It seems to be very fortunate for him. He will be a greater hero than ever, now, I suppose. If he is wise, he will stay in the backwoods to be worshipped for he'll find that his size won't count for much in the world.
Bryan telephoned Sea Girt to discuss with the Governor the matter of the chairmanship, he was greatly surprised and pleased to have the Governor say, in the most hearty way that, upon canvassing the whole situation, he felt it would be an admirable and just thing to select Ollie James of Kentucky. Mr. Bryan said: "But, Governor Wilson, Mr. James is in the Convention as a Clark man."
He saw tears come into Ollie's eyes as she clung closer to Alice's hand, and he heard the shocked gasping of women, and the grunts of men, and the stirring murmur of surprise which shook the crowd. He opened the little gate in the railing and went out. "You didn't have to do that for me, Ollie," said he, kindly; "I could have got on, somehow, without that."
She moved a step forward, gave a glance at her side-curls in the oval mirror over the mantel, stopped hesitatingly, and then bending over Mrs. Horn said, thoughtfully, her hand on her companion's shoulder, "Sallie, don't try to make water run uphill. If Ollie belonged to me I'd let him follow his tastes, whatever they were.
He had just stopped to speak to some one, and Ollie, losing no time, opened the window and called to him. "Papa, papa," she called, "do you think it is safe for Lucy to try to go home?" The wind was making such a terrible noise that Ollie's voice could not be heard. Mr. Rogers dismounted and came to the window.
"Come on, Matt," said Ollie, as the big fellow brought out the meal; "It's time you was a goin' home." The young giant hung back, saying, "You folks better go on ahead. I'll get home alright." "Didn't think nothin' would get you," laughed Ollie. "Come on, you might as well go 'long with us." The other muttered something about being in the way, and started back into the shed.
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